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...n a journal rarely read outside of Denmark, it went unnoticed for nearly a century.<ref name="Nahin98" /> The same results were independently rediscovered by ...h student wrote a doctoral dissertation on "Danish mathematics in the 18th century" that the universal significance of Wessel was brought up. While the studen ...

...s Xavier in Bologna, under the guidance of Luigi Marchenti, a pupil of the French mathematician [[Pierre Varignon]]. He entered the [[Society of Jesus]] on D ...i Analitiche''. Riccati's ''Institutiones analyticae'' is the fullest 18th-century Italian treatise on analytic methods in mathematics. ...

In 1701, French Jesuit missionary Pierre Jartoux (1669-1720) came to China, and he brought These infinite series stirred up great interest among Chinese mathematicians, as the calculation of {{pi}} with these "quick methods" involved only mult ...

...y a special symbol (e.g., an [[Letter (alphabet)|alphabet letter]]), or by mathematicians' names to facilitate using it across multiple [[mathematical problem]]s.<re ...mvar|e}}, discovered in part by Jacob Bernoulli along with [[French people|French]] mathematician [[Pierre Raymond de Montmort]], is in the problem of [[dera ...

...modeled;<ref group="lower-alpha">This approach is often favoured by (pure) mathematicians and mathematical physicists.</ref> e.g., the notion, due to [[Bernhard Riem ...al beauty]]), a notion sometimes called "[[Occam's razor]]" after the 13th-century English philosopher [[William of Ockham|William of Occam]] (or Ockham), in ...

...abstractness, purity, simplicity, depth or orderliness of [[mathematics]]. Mathematicians may express this pleasure by describing mathematics (or, at least, some asp Mathematicians commonly describe an especially pleasing method of [[Mathematical proof|pro ...

The adjective ''real'', used in the 17th century by [[René Descartes]], distinguishes real numbers from [[imaginary number]] ...tion was a major development of [[History of mathematics#19th century|19th-century mathematics]] and is the foundation of [[real analysis]], the study of [[re ...

...) from these. Although many of Euclid's results had been stated by earlier mathematicians,<ref name="Eves 1963 loc=p. 19">{{harvnb|Eves|1963|loc=p. 19}}</ref> Euclid ...clidean are known, the first ones having been discovered in the early 19th century. ...

...enturies when a rigorous symbolic formalism was developed. In the mid-19th century, the scope of algebra broadened beyond a [[theory of equations]] to cover d ...[[polynomial equations]] in view of solving them. This changed in the 19th century{{efn|These changes were in part triggered by discoveries that solved many o ...

...teseerx=10.1.1.58.8477 |s2cid=13387519 }}</ref> by [[Paolo Uccello]]. 15th century]] ...List of mathematical artists|Artists have used mathematics]] since the 4th century BC when the Greek [[sculpture|sculptor]] [[Polykleitos]] wrote [[Polykleito ...

| year_start = Before 12th century CE In the 17th century, the Queen of [[Kingdom of Cochin|Cochin]] adopted some Vettathunadu prince ...

...or [[panemone windmill]] first appeared in [[Greater Iran]] during the 9th century.<ref>Glick, Thomas F., Steven Livesey, and Faith Wallis. Medieval science, The 9th century mathematician [[Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi]] founded algebra and expand ...

...tle= Tutankhamun's Armies: Battle and Conquest during Ancient Egypt's Late 18th Dynasty |location= Hoboken |publisher= John Wiley & Sons |isbn= 97804717435 ...mented battle in the history of the world is the [[Battle of Megiddo (15th century BC)|Battle of Megiddo]].<ref name="Dupay">Trevor N. Dupuy, ''Evolution of W ...

..., who made extensive use of this special case of Taylor series in the 18th century.}} [[Mathematicians]] seek and use [[pattern]]s<ref> ...